long outline entries

long outline entries

[Jude DaShiell]

Is there any way in org-mode to have two things happeautomatically when a 
long outline entry gets keyed into a file?  First the lines of the outline 
entry do not go beyond a defined right margin and split on spaces.  
Second, subsequent lines created by above wrapping start on a left margin 
that makes it clear to org-mode that these additional lines are all part 
of the original outline entry since they're inside the indents created by 
the stars and space that started the original outline entry?  A question 
to clarify things a little bit may help.  Let's say an entry starts with 
three stars followed by a space followed by the start of the outline item.  
In order for things to lok neat and be correct, would org-mode start a 
wrapped line from that outline item if it was longer say than 65 
characters total on line 2 and space 5?



jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> Twitter: @JudeDaShiell

Re: long outline entries

[e.fraga]

On Thursday, 22 Jan 2015 at 17:06, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Is there any way in org-mode to have two things happeautomatically when a 
> long outline entry gets keyed into a file?  First the lines of the outline 
> entry do not go beyond a defined right margin and split on spaces.  
> Second, subsequent lines created by above wrapping start on a left margin 
> that makes it clear to org-mode that these additional lines are all part 
> of the original outline entry since they're inside the indents created by 
> the stars and space that started the original outline entry?  A question 

Maybe auto-fill-mode is what you want?
-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.1, Org release_8.3beta-717-gd36bd8

Re: long outline entries

[Subhan Michael Tindall]

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> To: Jude DaShiell
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> Subject: Re: [O] long outline entries
> 
> On Thursday, 22 Jan 2015 at 17:06, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Is there any way in org-mode to have two things happeautomatically
> > when a long outline entry gets keyed into a file?  First the lines of
> > the outline entry do not go beyond a defined right margin and split on
> spaces.
> > Second, subsequent lines created by above wrapping start on a left
> > margin that makes it clear to org-mode that these additional lines are
> > all part of the original outline entry since they're inside the
> > indents created by the stars and space that started the original
> > outline entry?  A question
> 
> Maybe auto-fill-mode is what you want?
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.1, Org release_8.3beta-717-gd36bd8

Auto-fil-mode doesn't apply to headlines.  AFAIK, there is no way to automatically wrap a headline other than hitting enter, and this moves the rest of what you are typing into the body of the entry.
If I'm recalling correctly, wrapping headlines like you have suggested (which I would like myself!) would break the new more formal drawers format without some significant rewrite.


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